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Oo VESSEL TRANSFERS. The sale of the Chicago tug Calumet, reported three weeks ago under the above heading, was for $5,100, and not for $1,500, as a printers’ error made it read. The price was correctly given in the Chicago letter of the same week. William Barrett Jr., of Red River, Wis., has traded the schooner O. Shaw to Alfred Morton, of Green Bay, for the schooner Dolly M. The Fritz Karste has been sold to Mr. Strichenbach, of Green Bay, and the tug M. A. Knapp to Capt. San- ders of West Green Bay. Both tugs will engage in fishing operations on Green Bay. Capt. Lem. Brown, of Sandusky, has purchased the steamer Energy from Capt. John McCormick, of Pelee Island, and will sail this season between Point Pelee Island and Kingsville, and will be on hand to lighter or assist a vessel aground on the middle ground. James M. Caldwell, of Toledo, has bought the schooner Young America from the Grummond estate. The price is not given. The steamer M. C. Neff has been sold by the Hines Lumber Co. to Cleveland people for $15,000. She will engage the coming season in carrying cedar between Lake Huron and Georgian Bay and Lake Erie. The steamer City of New York has been sold by the Chicago Lumber Co. for $8,000. She will remain on Lake Michigan. Capt. Jos. Ganley, of Collinwood, Ont., has pur- chased the tug Susan C. Doty. The new property will be used in connection with the fishing business in which Mr. Ganley is interested. Among recent transfers at Detroit is the propeller Rhoda Emily, sold by L. A. Hunt, Saginaw, toC. R. Jones, of Cleveland. C. M. Jones owner of one-half interest in the schooner John Magee, sold one-half of his interest to F. H. Hubbard, both of Detroit. C. B. Chamberlin has sold the schooner Kewaunee to Win & Schlasser, of Milwaukee, for $3,000. The steamer Arctic was sold by Deputy Marshal McCaffrey, at Alexandria Bay, to W. A. Webster, of South Hammond, for $2,000. Capt. Samuel W. Gould, master of the schooner John Martin, has purchased a ,; interest in the schooner, paying at the rate of $18,000 for the vessel. James F. Kneightley, of Mackinaw, has bought the gospel steamyacht Glad Tidings from Capt. Bundy, and will run her between St. Ignace and Les Cheneaux this year. Her name will be changed to Elva. Capt. D. C. Clary, of Sandusky, has sold the sloop- yacht Minx to John Beebe, of the same city. Consider- ation private. The following sales of vessel property have been placed on record at the Milwaukee custom office: Scow J. B. Prime, C. H. Ellis to Henry H. Schroeder, of Mil- waukee, one-half, $200. Steamer Hilton, C. H. Ellis to Henry H. Schroeder, of Milwaukee, one-half, $3,150. Schooner Hattie Hutt, Gunder Benson, of Manitowoc, to Ole Hanson, of Milwaukee, one-tenth, nominal consid- eration. Capt. L. B. Coates, of Sault Ste. Marie, has sold his interest in the steamer City of Green Bay to the A. Booth Packing Co. Capt. Gregory Hurson has bought the F.& P. M. No. 1 for his Chicago-Milwaukee route. She will be thor- oughly overhauled, and will be rechristened. The little schooner Mary has been sold by Capt. Arther EK. Dow, of Manitowoc, to Joseph Challee and Capt. Louis Legot, of Kewaunee, for $225. Gunda Hanson, of Washington Island, has sold one- fifth of the schooner Oneida to George Hanson, of Mil- waukee, for $700. Commodore W. H. Singer of Duluth, has traded the tug Howard to the Michigan Tug Towing Co., for the Waldo A. Avery. Chas. Chamberlain, of Detroit, has bought the schooner O. J. Hale from D. V. Runnels, of Port Huron, for $1,000. John Joys has sold one-half of the schooner Kmma Banner to Christopher Peterson, of Milwaukee, for $200. Capt, Ferd Jorus, of Egg Harbor, Wis., has sold the schooner Elizabeth to Capt. Charles Enman, of Menominee. iy The following are recorded at the Milwaukee customs office: Schooner Dollie M , Alfred Morton et al, of Es- canaba, to Wm. Barrett, of Red River, Wis., nominal consideration; schooner Actor, Charles KE. Roeber, THE MARINE RECORD. Manitowoc, to Arthur K. Dow,Manitowoc, $100; schooner Emily Taylor, Halvor Johnson, Two Creeks, Wis, to Anton Larschel, Bay Settlement, Brown county, Wis., $560. The Valley City, which has been at Toledo for some time, has been purchased by Oscar M. Springer, of that city, and will be taken via Green Bay, the canal and the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico. She will go into the ferry business betweed Galveston and Texas City. The excursion steamer Columbia was sold under the hammer at Buffalo for $16,500. Harry C. French has bought the three-fourths interest of W. J. Conners in the five steamers, Fisk, Moran, Neoly, Stevens and Warda. For particularssee Buffalo letter. Joen Kaercher, of Sandusky, has sold a one-fourth interest-in in the steamer H. C. Schnoor to Capt. Wm. Duff, who will command her.. The other three-quarters he sold to Carl G. Nielsen and Henry Lay. Cc. N. and George Johnson, of Milwaukee, have transferred to John Mogenson and Louis and Nils Olson, of Sheboygon, for $2,000, a two-thirds interest in the schooner Vega; also one-sixth to Mogenson for $500. Charlotte E. Cooper, of Milwaukee, and E. J. Stoakes, of Sheboygan, have secured from the Wisconsin Dredge & Dock Co. the tug George Cooper for $6,500, and the tug Pacific for $2,000. rr oo oe YACHTS AND YACHTSMEN. Ata special meeting of the Lake Michigan Yachting Association, held at Racine, recently, the following was adopted as a permanent rule of classification : “Resolved, That class A boats be composed of 45-foot boats and over; class B, 40 to 45; class C, 35 to 40; class D, 30 to 35; class E, 26 to 30; class F, 22 to 26; class G, 22 feet and under.’’ * * * An important meeting of the Inter-Lake Yachting Association was held at Erie, Pa., on the 11th inst. The rules regarding measurement of sail. areas were dis- cussed, but were left unchanged. A motion to classify by water-line length was also lost. Delegates from Lake Ontario Association stated that they would abandon their circuit this season and would attend the regatta at Put-in-Bay on August 3, 4, 5 and 6, afterwards visiting Cleveland, Krie and perhaps Toledo. A committee on compromise rules, to reconcile the dif- ferent views, was appointed, to report at the fall meet- ing, as follows: EK. W. Radder, of Cleveland; F. B. Hower, of Buffalo; George T. Bliss, of Erie, for the Lake Erie Yachting Association; and E. H. Ambrose and Commodore Jarvis, of the Lake Ontario Associa- tion. The delegates were banqueted by the Krie Yacht Club in tne evening. % e * The Cleveland Yacht Club is sparing neither expense nor labor to attract yachts to the Centennial regatta, which, it is hoped, will surpass everything of the kind ever before held on the Great Lakes. Over $5,000 has been set aside for prizes and entertainment, with a number of minor arrangements to relieve visiting yachtsmen from delay and annoyance. Several vessel owners have agreed to have their steamers tow yacht free to and from the regatta. * * * John Barth and G. W. Luetkemyer, of Cleveland, have bought the yacht Shamrock, of Detroit. Carl Schweikert, of that city,is shortening her jibboom so that ter topmast need not be shortened to qualify her to enter the third-class under the over-all system of meas. urement. She will be in commission in about two weeks, but will remain at Detroit until after Memorial Day, when her new owners will enter her in the Detroit races to come off that day * a * It is announced from Detroit that the yacht Alice Enright is likely to be out of commission this summer. There are no indications of any intention to repair the damage done to her in her collision with the yacht City of the Straits last fall, when both broke from their moorings. ‘The Sharon has chanyed hands, being now owned by James Gadd, Wesley Johnson, Oscar Peterson, and Homer Ducrot. rrr ee a Barly in May the steel passenger steamer Manitou, of the L. M. & Ll. S. line will take a special excursion party from Chicago to Duluth, THE LIBRARY TABLE. The Yale Scientific Monthly for April contains an- other valuable contribution from Mr. Henry S. Pick- ands ‘‘Arboriculture in Cities.”’ The May number of Harper’s will contain an article on Mark Twain, by his intimate friend, Rev. Joseph H. Twitchell, of Hartford. Most appropriately, the paper will abound in anecdote; and its interest will be en- hanced by a portrait, engraved by Florian from the most latest photograph of Mr, Clemens, and other illus- trations. Te RECORD has just received, from Mr. Chas. H. Jordan, M. 1. N. A., Lyon Court, Cornhill. London K. C., a copy of the fifth edition of hls tabulated weights of Angle, tel, and bulb iron and steel, with other informa- tion for the use of naval architects, ship builders, and manufacturers. ‘he book comprises 600 32mo pages bound in French morocco. The price is #2 per copy, and the RECORD will be pleased to place the order for any one wishing a copy. The front-spiece of Scribner’s for May is a fine repro- duction of William F. Kline’s beautiful picture of ‘‘Spring.”’ The leading article is on the home of Rob- ert Louis Stevenson, by Isobel Strong. Other contents are the first of aseries of papers by Hamilton Busbey upon “The Evolution of the Trotting Horse ;”” ‘“‘Women Bachelors in London,” by Mary Gay Humphreys; ‘(A Mystery of the Sea,’’ by W. J. Henderson, illustrated by M. J. Burns; and ‘‘ The Nightmare Page,’’ by Olive . Thane. The April number of the Central Magazine (Cleve- land) comes out in enlarged form. The leading article is an excellent historical sketch by D. D. Bigger, D. D., of Gen. Wm. H. Gibson—we say historical advisedly, as the story of the growth of Ohio is interwoven with the life of this great campaigner of the battlefield and stump. Other contents are poems by. Raymond Evans and Susie Marchant; ‘‘Cuba, the Gem of the Antilles,’ by Rose G. Abott; ‘(Whaling in Olden Days,” FE. H. Goodsell; “The Sunny South—College Park,” Hugh H. Colquitt; ‘Georgia Colleges,’’ Mrs. Loulie M- Gordon; ‘‘Rhome, a Tale of Early Days,” (serial) by George R. Woolf. The North American Review for April contains a leading article by David A. Wells on “Great Britain and the United States—Their True Relations.”” An- other international problem—‘‘Possible Complications of the Cuban question’’—is indorsed by Mayo W. Hazel- tine. Seaton Monroe gives further ‘‘Recollections of Lincoln’s Assassination;’? Karl Blind treats of the ‘Problems of the Transvaal.’? Other features are the “Gold Mining Activity in Colorado,” by I. A. Rickard, State geologist, and ‘‘The North Polar Problem’ by Admiral A. H. Markham, R.N.; ‘‘Pigmy Races of Men,” by Prof. Frederick Starr, and the continuation of ‘‘The Future Life and the Condition of Man There- in,’’? by Rt. Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone. ED OD — VISIBLE SUPPLY OF GRAIN. As compiled for THE MARINE RECORD by George F. Stone, Secretary Chicago Board of Trade, April 25, 1896: BARLEY WHEAT. CORN. OATS, RYE, pieces ye Bushels. | Bushels. | Bushels, | Bushels, | Bushels. Albany ......ccceeeee race none) 15,000 PURULUIBRES ean saie rican Baltimore ...........- 89,000} 469000} 148,000 58,000)... gceuiag Bostan'ago. sesGie ees 114,000 < 30-000)" 67,000}... 2.05.1) coocescee Buffalo, sgayerens ost 759,000; 755,000} 130,000} 126,000) ~_—~89,000 © AfMOAt. occ cee clone wees cel eeesceronn| i eseccssatlencsce soelessesceces Chicagos: cesikinees 16,189.000} & 993,000] 2,097,000} 447,000] 57,000 «afloat 60,000} — 186,000 O7 000 | cs scn eke onqrameeane Cincinnati,.... 12,000 2 000 20,000 1,000 86 000 Detroit, ace 216.000 17,000 13,000 13,000 2,000 ‘ afloat ... Kate [eateipietatete eran [iais, we cece feet t ees w eel wc ee wes ens| eeeeersces Duluth and Superion 14,686,000 147,000} 1,200 000 233.000 550,000 “ BHOAt| . eeieseecc|cnse sie siee|ssens aiceslelaeigee cai] evils slate Indianapolis, ........... 89,000 S000) ies cc cel ames eeekes'| sw eblciseetel Kansas City,.......-. 1,146,000] 184,900} 2,000} 29,000 Milwaukee,.......... 843,000 2,000 17,000 302.000 33,000 “ afloat ..... BS,000/'s isk ore cd a | eee seveceel sie Sinlch bie 6} stp eneare Minneapolis, ,. 18,753 000 51,000 722,000 109 000 126,000 Montreal, ... 927,000 75,000 433,000 6 000 5,000 New York... 271,000 91 000} 1,468,000 8,000 9,000 “ afloat ., Cwasd cose ebisa pel Rus wreite nce belo Cake a) alec Com QSWEBO covercececeelaces sisesce|sieetedeacaleeecessece|s ceveceee 15,000 Peoria esc ccuawsnas 20,000} 49,000} 262.000 2 000|..cc canes Philadelphia ......... 107,000] © 58.000} 93-000) iS. ..cile ce eek eas St. Louis.,....,......| 1,051,000 590 000 374,000 8.000|:0. saute nae Ore MANGA nsw oxicu liar danes si BEBOO! euwncaas sal casmic cece caknneamee Toledo..,... 720,000 4>1,000 69,000 123,000 a Pe Sc HAMORE toe ca} sume cake anaemia |e gee aon ane = ‘oronto ...... 30,0: 22,000 101, oH On Canal. 203 0:.. et oie REY UR Th sh lee seen On Lakes,...... 1,711,000} 5,677,000) 2,165,000: 50,000} 202,000 On Mississippi........ 100.000} 216,000 35,000) o...5i.sasiec| owevbe ines Grand Total. ......... 57,946,000] 15,155,000] 9,595,000] 1,510 900] 1,229,000 Corresponding date OD cr caeecwace var 65,776,000 | 11,107 000} 6,217 000} 151,000} 449,000